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Stain Glass in the Summer: A Senior Black and White Mandala Design by Ash Prodromou (2020)

When creating my personal mandala, I really enjoyed being able to create an abstract interpretation of an experience. The concept of an image being repeated over and over really lends itself to a lot of different ideas and pieces of art. I learned to draw on personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings to create art that allowed me to properly express myself. Since I’m new to Design, I was really worried about creating visual art and submitting it for a grade. This project has also alleviated some of my worries about future assignments.

This project, for me, mostly started out with just testing out the brush presets. I tried out brushes with multiple lines, thick brushes, thin brushes, etc...As I was fooling around, I created a small pattern that was a bird done in thin lines surrounded by a thick outline. It reminded me of when I had gone into the chapel at Stanford University and looked up at the incredible stained glass windows. It had been sweltering the day that I had gone to the campus, and as I looked up at the molded glass, I felt a bit dizzy. The colors and shapes swam before my eyes and seemed to blend into odd and disconcerting polygons. I was inspired by that feeling to create my personal mandala: a stained glass window that’s just slightly blurred and out of focus. Related website
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